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Captain's Log

The Rogue Trader’s steward just informed me of the news – the Dynasty has fallen. Grave times indeed. Seemingly overnight, his House has gone from a named to be feared and respected to completely obscurity – the only people to have heard of it is my crew, a few dock workers and the Adeptus Administratum – and even then they have to check with Holy Terra before confirming that the Warrant we have is valid. It seems that we will be departing soon to find the Trader’s heir, somewhere in the Adrantis sub-sector. I hate that place, the nebula there screws with the augur arrays – something about leftover radiation from the purging of Adrantis Five.

I’ve asked my Engineerseer to give me a full ship status report before we get underway. She still hasn’t tracked down that power drain that appeared out of nowhere a few days ago but assures me that it’s minor and shouldn’t interfere with any other systems. Other than that, all the ships systems seem to be in working order – Warp drive, sublight, weapons, voidshields, augurs and voxcaster. The boys at Port Wander did a fine job getting my ship patched up after that unfortunate incident with those automated defenses in that abandoned mining colony near Footfall.

Once we clear up the misunderstanding in terms of payment for these repairs -which is total daemonshit, we paid in advance but of course, no record of that exist – we will be getting underway.

Steward's Log

It’s all gone… our ships, our colonies, our stations – everything but the ship that I serve on. I’d say I should start at the beginning but that’s just it – I went to bed last night, our Dynasty a thriving empire that brought the Emperor’s light to countless worlds in the Expanse and amassed wealth beyond imagine and this morning, there’s no record of any of it and no one has even heard of my Lord outside the ship’s crew.

I need to calm down. We still have our Warrant and I verified that it is still valid with the Administratum. Furthermore, my Lord has an heir in the Calixis sector. I must find them and deliver the news of our Dynasty’s fall and pray to the Emperor that they will seek out what happened and rebuild what we lost. My family has dutifully served my Lord for 13 generations now as steward and friend and I can not – nay, I will not be the one to let down my family and my Lord.

Tomororw, I’ll seek out the ship’s Captain and determine its status then we shall depart to find the Heir. I must find the Dynasty’s heir.